The mother and daughter are still in the hospital with serious injuries. The mother was in "satisfactory" condition as of Saturday, according to Froedtert Hospital officials.

"In a fog, thought I was I dreaming, helpless," husband and father Brandon Mathews said.

Mathews was in Florida when he got the call on Father's Day that his wife, Katie, 5-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and a family friend were hit by a suspected drunken driver going in the wrong direction on I-43.

"Sixty miles an hour head-on crash," Mathews said.

Mathews took the first flight to Milwaukee. His loved ones were alive, but his daughter's injuries were severe.

"(She's) paralyzed from the chest down," he said.

She's been fitted for a wheelchair. Mathews doesn't think she fully understands.

"This is like the roughest thing I'll ever do my entire life is tell my kid that she'll never be able to walk again," he said.

Mathews said Elizabeth will fight, and their bond won't be broken, but their routine will just be different.

"I think of things like not being able to play soccer with her or ride bikes together," Mathews said.

Chaze Biami faces multiple charges in the crash.

"Coward, coward," Mathews said.

Instead, he's focusing on helping his daughter.

"If I rolled away and let go of her hand, she would kind of freak out, so I'm in the bed constantly, and it gives her that peace of mind so she could at least get a little sleep," Mathews said.

His wife is in a medically induced coma at Froedtert Hospital facing multiple surgeries, and he said it will be a long road ahead, but the family will stick together.